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A model walks the runway at the Naeem Khan Spring 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theatre Lincoln Center on Sept. 11, 2012 in New York.

Khan played with florals on his runway, but scored even bigger with bold colors. We fell for a bright yellow jersey dress with swirled bugle beads, an orange, beaded boho column dress and a crystal fringed shirt over a fushia organza ball-skirt.

It wasn't hard to picture Emmy favorites like Sofia Vergara, Julianna Margulies or Kristin Chenoweth in one of Khan's red carpet-ready gowns. From the more conservative looks, like a navy column with slashed silver bugle beading, to a sexy caviar beaded red cut-out number, we know one of these sparklers will get a primetime moment.

"Oh my god," said a young attendee (near front row guest Mischa Barton) when a metallic silver sequined gown with an ostrich feather skirt rounded the corner. We were inclined to agree, and the ‘wow' factor continued with nude beaded goddess gowns, a fun, young ink-blue cocktail dress and a stunning black and white paisley tunic.

It was time to play Spot the Emmy Dress at Naeem Khan's sparkle-infused show on Thursday afternoon, reports USA TODAY's Andrea Mandell. The stormy NYC day paired perfectly with thumping tunes by Marilyn Manson and The Dead Weather, which gave Khan's eveningwear a cool, dangerous feel.

Khan says America is having a "comeback of some sort. That coming back is what I'm feeling, and it's going to reflect in my clothes, so I hope it's true."

With the Oscars right around the corner, Khan says he has been circulating dresses for star attendees to wear, but there's no word yet on who will wear what.

He does, however, predict alot of red on the Oscar red carpet.

Designer Naeem Khan sent 40 red carpet-worthy gowns down the runway Thursday, causing the crowd to ooh and ahh at the sparkly designs.

Backstage before the show, Khan said his inspiration came from a book that fascinated him. "I read this book Religions of the Silk Road. This book is so fascinating because it was about globalization, the first of its kind where the East was meeting the West," he said.

"I love Naeem," Perrey Reeves (aka Mrs. Ari Gold) told us from the front row of Naeem Khan. "I wore him to the Emmys last year." As for her emotional confrontation with Ari on the season finale of Entourage, "It was a really hard scene for me to do," she said. And next season? "I know nothing. But I do know that I'm coming back. That's a good thing, right?"

Ten minutes in front of Naeem Khan's dresses - each more embellished or sparkling than the last - inspire the most glamorous of daydreams. Oh, to have a life that breakfasts in sweeping caftans, lunches (with Queen Rania, perhaps) in his button down shirt tucked into a white enamel floor-length skirt, and dances a fete away in his strapless nude gown showered in clear crystals.